2019: A Year in Review
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osprey_archerTen Things I Did This Year
1. Continued my resolution from 2018 to watch a film by a female director each month. In fact, I ended up watching 80 films by female directors in 2019. Yes, 80! I too was shocked when I counted it up. Of course it’s not as many as 2018 (when I watched 106), but then it’s no longer quite such a singular focus as it was in 2018, either. (It’s still bubbling around in my mind, though. There’s a female director in The Wolf and the Girl.)
2. Wrote a couple of guest posts for a blog about female literary friendship: Jean Webster and Adelaide Crapsey and The Louisville Authors’ Club.
3. Published Ashlin & Olivia whichreceived widespread acclaim didn’t make much of a splash, but no worries, I still have faith that someday the book’s time will come.
4. Started a twitter?! I’m Aster Glenn Gray over there. Still haven’t really gotten the hang of it, but eh. I can only be active so many places online.
5. Attempted to sell paperbacks at Pride and ignominiously failed. However, I have managed to unload most of my copies over the course of the year (still have a few Briarleys and an Ashlin & Olivia or two if anyone would like to make an arrangement!) so at least they’ve found good homes.
6. Donated the letters that I wrote at college to my alma mater’s archive. I like to imagine some student someday drawing on them for her honors project about… uh… “A Portrait of the Artist as a College Student”? These letters go on and on and ON about a LOT of novels I never finished, which surely ought to encourage any young artists who are afraid they’re never going to finish anything.
7. Wrote the first draft of Honeytrap. This feels more tentative than the other stuff listed here because the book is not done yet, but it’s so dominated the year that I feel I have to mention it somewhere.
8. Wrote a ficlet for each day in Whumptober. A lot of work, but loads of fun, and it definitely stretched my brain to have to come up with so many ideas - and, just as importantly, pare them down to the right size.
9. Massachusetts road trip November 2019! Visited a couple of RL friends, watched season 4 of She-Ra and chatted madly about story ideas withasakiyume, spent far too much (read: not nearly enough) money in the bookshop at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
10. Just barely squeaked The Wolf and the Girl’s publication in under the 2019 wire!
1. Continued my resolution from 2018 to watch a film by a female director each month. In fact, I ended up watching 80 films by female directors in 2019. Yes, 80! I too was shocked when I counted it up. Of course it’s not as many as 2018 (when I watched 106), but then it’s no longer quite such a singular focus as it was in 2018, either. (It’s still bubbling around in my mind, though. There’s a female director in The Wolf and the Girl.)
2. Wrote a couple of guest posts for a blog about female literary friendship: Jean Webster and Adelaide Crapsey and The Louisville Authors’ Club.
3. Published Ashlin & Olivia which
4. Started a twitter?! I’m Aster Glenn Gray over there. Still haven’t really gotten the hang of it, but eh. I can only be active so many places online.
5. Attempted to sell paperbacks at Pride and ignominiously failed. However, I have managed to unload most of my copies over the course of the year (still have a few Briarleys and an Ashlin & Olivia or two if anyone would like to make an arrangement!) so at least they’ve found good homes.
6. Donated the letters that I wrote at college to my alma mater’s archive. I like to imagine some student someday drawing on them for her honors project about… uh… “A Portrait of the Artist as a College Student”? These letters go on and on and ON about a LOT of novels I never finished, which surely ought to encourage any young artists who are afraid they’re never going to finish anything.
7. Wrote the first draft of Honeytrap. This feels more tentative than the other stuff listed here because the book is not done yet, but it’s so dominated the year that I feel I have to mention it somewhere.
8. Wrote a ficlet for each day in Whumptober. A lot of work, but loads of fun, and it definitely stretched my brain to have to come up with so many ideas - and, just as importantly, pare them down to the right size.
9. Massachusetts road trip November 2019! Visited a couple of RL friends, watched season 4 of She-Ra and chatted madly about story ideas with
asakiyume, spent far too much (read: not nearly enough) money in the bookshop at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. 10. Just barely squeaked The Wolf and the Girl’s publication in under the 2019 wire!
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Date: 2019-12-31 01:59 pm (UTC)(And thanks to you, I now *always* think about whether the director of a movie is male or female.)
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Date: 2019-12-31 02:11 pm (UTC)a monster!!!!awareness! Or something! (Side note: all the seasons of She-Ra so far have more female directors than male, so that's just an extra little bit of goodness about the show.)no subject
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Date: 2020-01-03 03:28 am (UTC)(And, relatedly, if there is or will eventually be a way to get an epub of The Wolf and the Girl, that would be amazing -- that one's for me. :D But Amazon has put more drm in place so that I can't convert mobis to epubs anymore, and thus can't read them on my ereader, and I'm not good at reading entire novels on a laptop.)
Anyway! Happy belated new year! You did SO MUCH writing and it's so excellent. Also, wrote up so many cool movies I'd never heard of!
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Date: 2020-01-03 01:52 pm (UTC)Re: The Wolf and the Girl, I see three options:
1. I didn't enable the DRM on the Kindle ebook, so possibly you'll be able to convert it? I don't know whether Amazon has made it impossible to convert even if DRM is not enabled.
2. I'm actually ordering paperbacks of The Wolf and the Girl too, and I'd be happy to sell you one on the same terms as the Briarley paperback.
3. Would it work if I sent you the Word document? I'd charge $2.99, same as the Amazon price.
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Date: 2020-01-04 01:29 am (UTC)I have no idea if enabling the DRM is relevant or not, but I also didn't know it was a thing authors had control over, so let me try! I'll let you know if it works and go from there. :) Though either of the other options would work, I should think.
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Date: 2020-01-04 01:33 am (UTC)And yes, let me know if the Kindle book works for you!